Cristina Pecchia specializes in Indian and Buddhist philosophy, in particular Buddhist epistemology. She currently works on her stand-alone project [[Nobles Truths|''The Nobles’ Truths in Indian Buddhist Epistemology'']], with funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She also has a strong research interest in the āyurvedic tradition, in textual criticism and manuscript studies with reference to Sanskrit texts, and the intellectual history of South Asia from the premodern to the contemporary period, with a special focus on the history of philology.

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Cristina Pecchia is a fellow of the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. She currently works on her stand-alone project The Nobles’ Truths in Indian Buddhist Epistemology, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Dr Pecchia was trained at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (PhD 2003, MA 1991), at Delhi University (MA in Buddhist Studies, 1993), and at the University for Foreigners in Perugia (MA in Italian as a second language, 1995). In the framework of her doctoral studies, she came to Vienna in 2000 to study with Ernst Steinkellner and his team.

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Based at the IKGA, she has conducted the three-years stand-alone project Indian Buddhist Epistemology and the Path to Liberation funded by the FWF (completed in September 2016). She has previously collaborated to three FWF projects on the topic Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India, directed by Karin Preisendanz and based at the University of Vienna and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2006–2012). She has received grants and awards from the Italian Foreign Office, the Jan Gonda Foundation, Leiden University, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. At the University of Vienna she regularly teaches courses on aspects of Indian philosophy and on manuscript and print cultures in South Asia.

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Dr Pecchia is a philogist working primarily with materials in Sanskrit. She specializes in Indian and Buddhist philosophy, in particular Buddhist epistemology. She also has a strong research interest in the Ayurvedic tradition and the intellectual history of South Asia from the premodern to the contemporary period, with a special focus on the history of philology.

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Cristina Pecchia was trained at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (PhD 2003, MA 1991), at Delhi University (MA in Buddhist Studies, 1993), and at the University for Foreigners in Perugia (MA in Italian as a second language, 1995). In the framework of her doctoral studies, she came to Vienna in 2000 to study with Ernst Steinkellner and his team.

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Based at the IKGA, she has conducted a research project titled [[Erlösungsweg|''Indian Buddhist epistemology and the path to liberation'']], with funding from the FWF (completed in September 2016). She has previously collaborated in three projects on Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India, directed by Karin Preisendanz and based at the University of Vienna and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2006–2012). She has received grants and awards from the Italian Foreign Office, the Jan Gonda Foundation, Leiden University, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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Cristina Pecchia is a fellow of the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. She currently works on her stand-alone project The Nobles’ Truths in Indian Buddhist Epistemology, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Dr Pecchia was trained at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (PhD 2003, MA 1991), at Delhi University (MA in Buddhist Studies, 1993), and at the University for Foreigners in Perugia (MA in Italian as a second language, 1995). In the framework of her doctoral studies, she came to Vienna in 2000 to study with Ernst Steinkellner and his team.
Based at the IKGA, she has conducted the three-years stand-alone project Indian Buddhist Epistemology and the Path to Liberation funded by the FWF (completed in September 2016). She has previously collaborated to three FWF projects on the topic Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India, directed by Karin Preisendanz and based at the University of Vienna and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2006–2012). She has received grants and awards from the Italian Foreign Office, the Jan Gonda Foundation, Leiden University, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. At the University of Vienna she regularly teaches courses on aspects of Indian philosophy and on manuscript and print cultures in South Asia.
Dr Pecchia is a philogist working primarily with materials in Sanskrit. She specializes in Indian and Buddhist philosophy, in particular Buddhist epistemology. She also has a strong research interest in the Ayurvedic tradition and the intellectual history of South Asia from the premodern to the contemporary period, with a special focus on the history of philology.

forthcoming, together with Vincent Eltschinger (eds), Mārga. Paths to liberation in South Asian Buddhist traditions. Papers from an international symposium held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, December 17 – 18, 2015. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Wien. Book manuscript under preparation.

forthcoming, (editor), Editors of Sanskrit Texts. Materials for a history of philology in South Asia. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Wien. Book manuscript under preparation.

forthcoming, together with Karin Preisendanz and Philipp A. Maas, The Text of the Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna 8, as critically edited in the FWF projects “Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India”. Book manuscript under preparation.

2010 “Contradictions on the way to liberation: Dharmakīrti’s discussion.” In: Giacomella Orofino, Silvio Vita (eds.), Buddhist Asia 2. Papers from the Second Conference of Buddhist Studies held in Naples in June 2004. Kyoto: Italian School of East Asian Studies, 2010: 47–67.